"Triassic Triops"

[JungleGuts]

haha, well i was at walmart picking up some stuff and i notced in the fish section were "Triassic Triops" http://www.triops.com
a pack was 3$ so i said what the heck. it comes with eggs food and instructions. there guaranteed to hatch and grow for 20-90 days and can get up to 2in w/proper care. i noticed it said spring water, NO tapwater. is bottled water basicily spring water? anyway ill see what happens with these prehistoric creatures. im guessing it will eather be really cool and work, or really gay. well we will see....

btw i think there classified as crustaceans but dont really know much about them

 

[Thoth]

http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?t=60145&highlight=triops

They are pretty cool, i could never get mine to live longer than 3 weeks though.

 

[JungleGuts]

thanks for link, do you have any pics when urs were alive?*i noticed there were pics on the old thread but there no longer showing, anyone have pics of yours?

 

[Gigas]

OMG old school these things rocked my socks, i got mine to like 2 inches then it ate its brothers and sisters.... but i got more and im hoping to breed em,
spring water is bottled water without chlorine

 

[JungleGuts]

just put mine in the water, hopefully ill see some life in 18-24 hours!
by the way the eggs are just siting on the top of the water, will they sink?

 

[Gigas]

yeah most of its just twigs, and in 18-24 hours you dont know if theyre the triops or other wierd things that they come with, the book should say when to clear the gunge off

 

[JungleGuts]

ya there all gathering at the sides of the tank

 

[iturnrocks]

for the best results, use distilled or deionized water.

Here are pics of some i hatched from wild caught dirt.

Here is one I actually caught wild

Here are some sheds from the wild caught ones

Heres a gif of one at 1 day old magnified 60x

Heres one 10 days old

other pics

 

[JungleGuts]

wow great pics!! thanks

 

[Scolopendra55]

I got 6 of mine to 2" but I changed their water with tap (which I thought was purified) and they died within 8 hours :wall:

 

[8legs2shave]

Use distilled water...

I used mountain spring and it didn't work...I tried again with distilled and it was cooool.

 

[Scorp guy]

hrm, triops look exactly like those tadpole shrimp ive seen, where do you think they get these eggs and all?

 

[jarrell]

nice i thought they cost 20 bucks? do they have same care as seamonkeys?

 

[Gigas]

hrm, triops look exactly like those tadpole shrimp ive seen, where do you think they get these eggs and all?

They are tadpole shrimp "Triops cancriformis " is their scientific name, their first specimens were W/C and they now breed them in lab condidtions, they have bred out the Mottled Colour form (spotted) as inbreeding made unicolour triops the tan or pink comes about from what they receive in their diets, if they prefer to eat the clam shrimp or other creatures that they come with, they tend to be a pinkier colour.

 

[iturnrocks]

Triops, Tadpole Shrimp, Shield Shrimp are all common names of animals from the scientific Order Notostraca of the Class Branchiopoda. The single family Triopsidae contains 2 genus- Triops and Lepidurus.

 

[iturnrocks]

They are tadpole shrimp "Triops cancriformis " is their scientific name, their first specimens were W/C and they now breed them in lab condidtions, they have bred out the Mottled Colour form (spotted) as inbreeding made unicolour triops the tan or pink comes about from what they receive in their diets, if they prefer to eat the clam shrimp or other creatures that they come with, they tend to be a pinkier colour.

I have found that color is determined by living conditions. The ones I raise on dirt have the mottled (spotted) coloration, and the ones i raise on sand or gravel are more solid colored. Those yellow and orange colored ones started out looking spotted on dirt, then i moved them to a sand/gravel tank after about 1-2 weeks and they changed colors. I believe feeding them carrots may have had something to do with it too.